NEWS FROM SPACE: "Astronomers have found 32 new planets outside the solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. Scientists using European Southern Observatory telescopes did not find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased the number of planets discovered outside the solar system to more than 400." Great! Now let's try to blow them up!
Monday, October 19, 2009
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God help us if they have their own Miss Universe.
What if one of those planets has a strange communications entity called Moc.LwaEht?
What if?
WHAT IF????
Don't blame me, I voted for Klab!
I cast my vote for Eriohc, but I was thinking of Ylime.
Please, please, please let one of them be Thundera.
Isn't making predictions about planet habitableness based on earth a bit sketchy. Couldn't other life forms develop under totally different conditions. Hell, look at the communities that live at the bottom of the sea near those vents. Extremely cold and extremely hot water, no light at all, ridiculous amounts of pressure, etc. Woudn't we predict that you would find no life there.
Weed would have helped this comment.
I am much too lazy to look it up right now, but I believe the range of temperatures and pressures inhabited by life (even the vent creatures) on Earth are fairly small compared to that found in the universe. Judging planets from a distance is probably not too exact when it comes to conditions and so the scientists probably don't really rule anything out unless it is waaay out there. Even then, it is most likely couched in terms like "Earth-like" etc.
The important thing to remember here is that many of these peoples have one or perhaps three eyes and long squiggly fingers.
You would have lost all credibility with me if you had actually looked up the numbers. As it is I think you're a fine person, and I see your point.
First we demote Pluto and then we find all these planets in other solar systems. We a fickle bunch.
"Great! Now let's try to blow them up!"
Let's not be rash. I need to know what they think about (wedge issue here) before I
publicly state my personal belief that would never be swayed by rational thoughtweigh in.I think I love you.
Everything should be fine, just as long as one of those planets isn't that terrible planet of the apes... Wait a minute... Statue of Liberty... That was our planet!
You maniacs! You blew it up!
God damn you!
God damn you all to hell!
There is only ONE assload planet, and it is Uranus.
At least now we can relax about all this 'global warming' doom and gloom nonsense.
"Whether they find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet." -Jack Handey
That's not a moon.
Strangely enough, "assload" is actually the formal astronomical term for a large number of undiscovered planets.
This should be a regular feature: "Science Talk With Alex Balk."
He is a great interpreter.